News H.G. Wells Gael García Bernal Stars in Netflix’s Adaptation of H.G. Wells The Country of the Blind The adaptation is currently titled In the Valley of Shadows (En El Valle De Las Sombras) By Molly Templeton | Published on March 11, 2026 Photo: Netflix Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: Netflix Here’s an adaptation you won’t have to wait a million years for: Deadline reports that filming has wrapped on In the Valley of Shadows (En El Valle De Las Sombras), an adaptation of the H.G. Wells short story “The Country of the Blind.” The movie comes from director Sebastián Cordero (Europa Report), and stars Gael García Bernal as mountaineer Álvar Toledano, who falls into a valley and finds himself the only sighted person present. The valley—cut off from the rest of the world by an earthquake—is home to a community that has been blind for generations. As Deadline explains, “Toledano is convinced of his superiority, but soon discovers that his ability to see is considered a disturbance rather than an advantage among the people of the valley. As he tries to adapt, Álvar falls in love with Medina (Natalia Reyes), the woman caring for him. Per the synopsis: Álvar must decide whether to renounce who he is in order to belong, or whether the price of seeing is to flee the valley of shadows.” Wells’ story was originally published in 1904 in The Strand Magazine, and later collected in The Country of the Blind and Other Stories. He expanded and revised the story for a later publication, and it seems the end is rather different; it’ll be interesting to see which the film uses. Previous adaptations include radio plays, an opera, a stage production, an episode of a 1962 TV series called The DuPont Show of the Week and a short animated adaptation, but no feature films. Director Cordero co-wrote the screenplay with María Camila Arias (a story editor on Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude). The cast also includes Claudio Cataño, Diego Vásquez, Irina Loaiza, and Margarita Rosa de Francisco. No Netflix premiere date has been announced, though the film will be released theatrically first in Colombia, where it was filmed.[end-mark] The post Gael García Bernal Stars in Netflix’s Adaptation of H.G. Wells <i>The Country of the Blind</i> appeared first on Reactor.